Social Justice Movies

  • 2015
    70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green

    70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green

    70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green

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    Documenting the demolition of Cabrini Green, Chicago's most infamous public housing development, through the stories of three public housing...

    70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green
  • 2009
    Arabella Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

    Arabella Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

    Arabella Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

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    Arabella Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award), was recognized for...

    Arabella Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005
  • 1970
    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!

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    "A short documentary amplifying what I witnessed this past long weekend. I hope this film helps spread the word about the importance of the Fairy...

    Save the Fairy Creek Watershed!
  • 2019
    Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

    Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

    Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

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    As a centuries-old black community, contaminated and uprooted by petrochemical plants, comes to terms with the loss of its ancestral home, one man...

    Mossville: When Great Trees Fall
  • 1980
    Hello Daens

    Hello Daens

    Hello Daens

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    Docu-drama about a youth club which is preparing to make a film on priest Daens and his political socail movement Daensisme.

    Hello Daens
  • 2020
    We Came to Heal

    We Came to Heal

    We Came to Heal

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    We Came to Heal” follows H.O.L.L.A!’s Healing Justice Movement - over a three years period capturing Healing Justice circles, the Healing...

    We Came to Heal
  • 2020
    One Book at a Time

    One Book at a Time

    One Book at a Time

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    Sarah Kamya is a school counselor in New York City. She began the project Little Diverse Libraries on June 3rd and has already raised over $13,000,...

    One Book at a Time
  • 2024
    Blessed be the Joint

    Blessed be the Joint

    Blessed be the Joint

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    In the midst of conservative politics in the city of Goiânia, an anti-prohibitionist collective mobilizes for the legalization of marijuana...

    Blessed be the Joint
  • 1970
    Elizabeth

    Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008

    Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008

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    Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award) - for...

    Elizabeth
  • 2024
    Let It Be a Tale

    Let It Be a Tale

    Let It Be a Tale

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    An animated tribute to the text of "If I Must Die," the final poem written by Palestinian writer, scholar, activist, and martyr Dr. Refaat Al-Areer.

    Let It Be a Tale
  • 2009
    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005

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    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2005 Community Leadership Awards (Robert C. Kirkwood Award) - for his decades of...

    Honorable Ronald V. Dellums: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2005
  • 1970
    Eva Paterson: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2007

    Eva Paterson: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2007

    Eva Paterson: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2007

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    Eva Paterson, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2007 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award). Eva has empowered...

    Eva Paterson: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2007
  • 2014
    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

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    When the graves of former slaves are bulldozed in Mississippi, a native son returns to protect the community they settled - a place now threatened by...

    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek
  • 2009
    Louis Guilloux, the rebel

    Louis Guilloux, the rebel

    Louis Guilloux, the rebel

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    Louis Guilloux (1899-1980) is one of the great figures of 20th-century literature. Rolland Savidan and Florence Mahé's film accurately...

    Louis Guilloux, the rebel
  • 1970
    Silence in the Mississippi Delta - Hawkins vs The Town of Shaw

    Silence in the Mississippi Delta - Hawkins vs The Town of Shaw

    Silence in the Mississippi Delta - Hawkins vs The Town of Shaw

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    This documentary tells the story about Andrew Hawkins Sr. & Mary Lou Hawkins suing the town of Shaw, Mississippi as a family for the disparities...

    Silence in the Mississippi Delta - Hawkins vs The Town of Shaw
  • 1970
    Chronique d'une crise

    Chronique d'une crise

    Chronique d'une crise

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    Chronique d'une crise
  • 2019
    The Chicago Conspiracy

    The Chicago Conspiracy

    The Chicago Conspiracy

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    This documentary addresses the legacy of the military dictatorship in Chile by sharing the story of young fighters killed by the Pinochet regime as a...

    The Chicago Conspiracy
  • 2022
    El dolor invisible

    El dolor invisible

    El dolor invisible

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    El dolor invisible
  • 2009
    Puente de la Costa Sur

    Puente de la Costa Sur

    Puente de la Costa Sur

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    Puente de la Costa Sur, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (John R. May Award) - for its creative, grassroots...

    Puente de la Costa Sur